Homeschool Companion Feeding Guide

"Airi...do you think it's possible to change the future where so many people are devastated?"

The old man's eyes were full of sorrow, and his tone revealed the sorrow of the vicissitudes of life.

The girl who was questioned by him could only lower her head speechlessly. After a long silence, she slowly said, "I'm sorry... Jiudaimu, from the countless possible branches in the future, I only saw the only possibility to save the common people... ...But I can't say...the future is a "probability" piled up with countless variables. If you want to move towards the future of that ideal branch, you must make a decision that follows your heart at the right node. "

"Live or die, it's all in your mind."

[Also in that child's, in a single thought. 】

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The scattered clouds in the sky slowly engulfed the setting sun, devouring every ray of extended halo.

The chilly wind woke up many students who were still staring in a daze after getting up early in the morning.

Withered twigs are scattered, the gray and black textures are mottled and peeled off, the branches are layered, looking up, the gray sky is broken and hazy, and the young man on the high ground breathed out a warm and humid mist, covering his hands that were already red with cold.

But the cold air couldn't suppress the lively atmosphere of Pengo Lie today. The majestic school gate is now more smokey than before, and an unprecedented grand welcome ceremony is being prepared here.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that it was "decorated with lights and festoons". If it hadn't been for the firm stop of the former vice president, I'm afraid there would have been a funny red banner written to celebrate the "return of the king of XANXUS".

Hundreds of students gathered here, eating the cold wind, showing 100% energy, smiling faces, eager to squeeze into the crowd.

Those who can't go forward struggle to stand on tiptoe in the crowd, intending to be superior to others, and achieve an eye-catching effect.

The grand occasion of the crowd is so similar to that of eight years ago.

It's just that this seemingly eager atmosphere has covered up many unknown secrets in the past eight years.

Everyone has their own concerns, flattery and flattery, fake smiles to deceive, filled the crowd.

"It's such an uncomfortable atmosphere..."

On the tower of the student union, Luna frowned and looked in the direction of the school gate.

"Tsuna Yoshi-kun... are you really all right? Obviously you have been working so hard all this time..."

Thinking of the boy's clean and clear smile before he left, Luna felt even more uneasy.

Now Luna, who has grown into a slim girl, is biting her thumbnail in a somewhat disfigured manner at this moment, and her long hair is also messed up by being scratched.

"Ahhhhhhhhh... Tsuna Ji-kun is the same, why doesn't he have any sense of crisis at all, I don't know how many people are waiting to see his jokes..."

"Even if you tell me not to worry... I don't even think about who is the reason why I am so irritable these days!"

Luna helplessly scratched her hair again, the emperor was not in a hurry for the eunuchs, she was worried about this and that for their Buddhist little president, she felt that if she continued like this, her hair would fall out sooner or later.

"But even if it's that man XANXUS, I will never back down. I only recognize Tsunayoshi-kun as the chairman of this term!"

The girl clenches her fists to show her sanity and determination.

"Hey~ The vice president is also very motivated today."

Suddenly there was an incoherent voice behind her, and she was so annoyed by the owner of this voice for the past few days, Luna turned around with her habitual corners of her eyes twitching.

"Ottovia! How many times have I said this! This is the student union, not a place for you, the former vice president, to patronize!"

On the word "before", Luna's tone of voice increased, especially emphasizing it.

"Don't be like this..." Ottovia smiled dishonestly, and put a hand on Luna's shoulder like a good buddy, "I just helped you solve the problem of the banner?"

The girl who wanted to shake off the young man's arm hesitated for a moment, but finally let him go.

The prestige of this year's student union in the school is not high, and they have always been in an embarrassing position. Although they have softened in recent years, many times their decisions are not as good as the words of the former vice president... Although The temperament of hanging ears and clattering often makes people feel a little unpleasant, but I have to admit that it really helps a lot.

"..." He was obviously a direct subordinate of XANXUS back then, but now he comes to help their "enemies" for free. I really don't understand what this guy is thinking...

"...Today is the day when XSNXUS came back. Before he came back, he only notified you at first, right? Will you, the former deputy, come to welcome you?" Luna was really lost in temper by Ottovia's shameless way , had no choice but to change the topic of the question.

"It's okay..." Hearing this, the young man waved his hands with bitterness and hatred on his face, "Boss hates this kind of occasion the most...Only a clown who pretends to be clever and jumps up to the front to make fun of himself. What about the boss? The world-weary face is the same as the outside..."

As he said that, the message left by the man a few days ago was completely played back in the young man's mind, and Ottovia's face turned blue and purple.

"what happened to you?"

Sensing his discomfort, Luna quickly expressed concern.

"It's okay... Actually, I hope that the BOSS will come back later, so that my death can be delayed a little..."

There was no color on the young man's face.

"what……?"

Regardless of Luna's doubts, Ottovia grabbed the girl's hand.

Luna: "——?!"

Ottovia: "Please! Seeing that I have helped you so much, after the boss comes back, you must ask your cutie to intercede for me. It must be cutie! Otherwise, I will really I can't see the sun tomorrow!"

The young man looked very earnest, as if holding the last straw.

Luna: "...?"

Since just now, she doesn't seem to understand what this guy is talking about. She knows that Ottovia has been calling Tsunayoshi-kun a cutie... But, what kind of causal relationship is there before and after?

Seeing the girl's doubts, Ottovia didn't know how to explain it. If he said that it was because he had "bullied" Tsunayoshi-kun before, although he couldn't help it... But hearing what he said, don't worry about it. The boss has made a move, and the girl in front of him is probably going to be the first to deal with him.

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The boy on the high ground unknowingly shook his fluffy brown tail frequently, and the range and strength reached an unprecedented level, which was enough to see how "magnificent" the boy's thoughts were at the moment.

Gang Ji was spinning around in excitement, unwilling to stop for a moment, and his face was also flushed with excitement. From time to time, he would use his wide field of vision to look towards the end of the road. The expectation and joy in his eyes seemed to be in the next second. To overflow.

The wheels are rolling - the vague outline of the carriage slowly reveals a corner in the distance.

"—!"

At first, it was not certain that it was the car, but the experience of "everything is like a soldier" in the past eight years has already made the young man feel disappointed.

He stared wide-eyed, staring at the black shadow approaching at a steady speed.

A little closer... A little closer... Close enough to clearly see the dark but ostentatious body of the carriage. The crowd who approached the school gate also noticed this high-profile carriage, and there were bursts of ear-piercing surprises. The breath hit the eardrums - the boy still couldn't believe it.

The tail of the boy with lion ears collapsed into a straight line, and the twisted edges of the car body were reflected in the red eye sockets.

He lay on the ground, closely following the slowly moving carriage among the cheering crowd, not daring to blink for fear that he would find himself in a dream in the next second.

The picture that Ao had imagined countless times in the past eight years was finally staged in front of his eyes, but it was like an old oil painting, and the yellowed film, overlapping the familiar scene in the dream, giving people a sense of unreality.

The noisy cries of celebration at the school gate seemed to come from far away.

Gang Ji didn't know what he was waiting for, he just stared at the carriage, wanting to confirm something - no, no one got out of the carriage.

【I really want... I really want to meet...even if it's just from a distance—】

The boy let out a choked sob from the depths of his chest, waiting for eight years, waiting for eight years, working hard for eight years...

But I found that I was still far away from that person—"Patta."

The sound of dead branches snapping.

"—!"

The boy immediately stood up alertly and turned around.

What came into view was a straight figure that seemed to be integrated with countless straight dead black branches.

I don't know when it appeared, and I don't know how long I watched it.

"..." The man approached slowly without a word, and stopped in the young man's unbelievably frozen gaze.

The corners of Tsuna's dry and peeling lips opened and closed slightly, as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he only uttered a few unknown syllables.

At that moment, the boy lost his voice, he couldn't say anything, he obviously had a lot to say... If Mr. XANXUS found out about his current identity, would he be hated?There are many greetings I want to express, and many questions I want to ask...

But when the words came to an end, I couldn’t say anything. In the end, my mind was only filled with the same noun—【Mr. XANXUS, Mr. XANXUS...Mr. XANXUS...】

No more thinking about it.

"..." XANXUS slightly put his right hand on his lips, pressing on a certain knuckle, and the young man noticed that XANXUS was wearing a leather-like black glove, which fit well and outlined his slender knuckles.

The man narrowed his eyes, as if he was listening carefully, his cold face seemed to be moved for a moment.After a while, he didn't wait any longer, stepped in front of the boy in two or three steps, bent over and put his black coat over the boy's body with his backhand, covered the boy's frozen red hands, and wrapped the whole person tightly into his arms.

"……Huh…?"

The lost voice was finally found, but the boy froze in the man's arms for some unknown reason. XANXUS's unexpected behavior made the boy feel like he was in a dream even more.

"Not a dream."

"!"

Suddenly, a man whispered close to his ear, as if he had read all the young man's thoughts.

"Mr. XANCUS,...?" Tsunayoshi Sawada called out uncertainly after all.

"Yeah." The man responded, raising his hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of the boy's eyes. The leather texture of the glove left a cold and slippery touch on the skin. The warm embrace and the man's shallow and undulating chest all told the boy that all this is incredible. It's so real, you can hear it, you can touch it.

For a moment, the boy's thoughts became a mess.

But the man just took advantage of his posture to pull away the boy's sleeves, and saw that his supposedly fair skin was covered with many bluish-red scars from bumps. These were the traces left by the boy's accumulated exploration in the mountains. One, it is conceivable that there must be many such marks on the young man.

"..." There was a kind of depressive undercurrent in the man's eyes, and he tenderly kissed the young man's wrist with pity.

The scars, as if trying to cover those traces.

The boy's mind went blank, feeling the soft but not negligible touch on his wrist at a loss.

The man's lips seemed to be as cold as his own.

XANXUS's peripheral vision has been lingering on the young man, seeing that the person in his arms seemed to be distracted, the man squinted his eyes, pulled the young man's hand closer to his face, and declared his sovereignty in a low tone full of domineering and arrogant: "Little ghost, listen up, I'm the only one who can leave such marks on you from now on."

"Such...traces...?" The young man repeated unconsciously, simple doubts, simple and easy to understand.

"..." The man stopped talking, but pressed the boy's head into his chest forcefully.

Tsunayoshi: "...Ah...", he couldn't see the expression of Mr. XANXUS... What should I do, are you angry...?

"...", a helpless sigh from a man seemed to come from above his head, "Idiot brat..."

Saying so, the man hugged the boy even tighter, as if he wanted to melt him into flesh and blood.

[Little devil... you provoked me first. 】